Chapter: 3798

At this moment, the young squad leader of Wan Long Temple spoke up: "Alright, time's running out. It's high time we got moving."

He then instructed his subordinates standing by him: "Launch the lifeboat!"

The subordinates immediately activated the winch and began slowly lowering the lifeboat from the ship's side.

At this moment, those few pirates no longer had their usual swaggering demeanor; one by one, they cried and wailed, as if already on the verge of death.

The leader, seeing that the lifeboats were already being launched, shouted in terror: "Brother, please give us some fresh water... or we really won't be able to hold on..."

The squad leader leaned against the ship's railing, laughing and saying: "I think it would be more realistic for you to pray for God to send another rain shower."

The man gazed out at the sky around him, with the whole Gulf of Aden above them a deep blue with not a cloud in sight. Under these circumstances, it was unlikely that there would even be rain within a week.

Just then, the squad leader pulled out a hand gun from his waist and precisely fired several shots, hitting the rope holding up the lifeboat.

Instantly, the rope snapped and the lifeboat plummeted down from several meters high on the ship's deck, crashing onto the sea surface.

Accompanied by the six people's frantic screams, the lifeboat slammed into the sea with a loud crash, and earlier shot-through holes burst out straight water columns due to pressure.

These six people were also thrown around in disarray, with some even falling into the sea.

Meanwhile, as the giant wheel churned ahead, high waves surged up on both sides, propelling them far away from the ship, with some people plummeting into the sea and never returning, while those left on the ship struggled to keep the boat afloat and then began frantically pumping water outwards with their hands, even using their feet to try and block the twenty-odd holes in the bottom of the boat.

Just then, Little Dragon Hall's squad leader suddenly thought of something and asked his subordinate, "Oh, didn't we forget that there are no life jackets on board?"

The other replied, "Sir, don't worry, there are life jackets, but they've all been torn open beforehand. Even if we kill them, it won't make a difference."

As he spoke, the other added, "And as for those bottled water, we also replaced them with seawater earlier. As for compressed biscuits, we did leave some, though - that stuff just gets more and more unbearable, so maybe they're better off without it."

The squad leader shot up his thumb in approval, sincerely praising, "You're a genius!"

Indeed, the people in the lifeboat saw all hope lost to block the leaks, and the first person immediately shouted, "Quickly find the emergency kit! This kind of lifeboat must have an emergency kit! It might have life jackets, food, and water too!"

One group immediately found the emergency kit hidden under the deck at the tail end of the lifeboat.

They then excitedly flipped and turned around, pulling out a whole batch of bottled water, several packs of compressed biscuits, and a few pairs of deflated life jackets from inside.

Seeing these materials, those people suddenly became ecstatic!

One person quickly snatched up a life jacket and immediately put it on, starting to blow air into the inflatable valve through their shoulder area.

However, no matter how hard they blew, their life jackets remained unchanged, like a thin layer of plastic wrap stuck to their bodies.

At that moment, someone let out a despairing shout: "Damn it! The life jacket is all torn open! It's leaking everywhere!"

The leader immediately collapsed: "Looks like these beasts had planned this in advance!"

As he spoke, he gazed at the bottled water and compressed biscuits, sighed, and said: "It seems that these people still have some last-minute conscience, leaving us a bit of food and water to spare, or maybe we can make it back alive……" JrNovels.com